A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
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A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
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Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#2What they actually found out:
“Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#3What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
Thanks for saving me a lot of time.
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#4What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
that, and he noticed the numbers in the cords matched the numbers in a census record.
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#5What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
So the knots are basically census records? How disappointing :/
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#6What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
So the knots are basically census records? How disappointing :/
Writing in general began as accounting practices. Put your grain in the common granary, get some token (pebbles) for each measure you put in. Redeem them later. Then they started keeping the tokens in a box. Then they wrapped the tokens in clay envelopes marked with your family symbol. But they had to keep breaking them open to count them, then re-wrapping them, so they started putting hash marks on the outside of the envelope. Then they finally realized they didn't need to put anything in the clay, just the hash marks. Voila, writing!
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#7What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
So the knots are basically census records? How disappointing :/
None so fast. It allows us to corroborate the Spanish records with the actual records kept by the natives. That’s a pretty big deal in terms of finding out what parts of the conquest were fact what were fiction.
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#8Anyone have a link to the paper?
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#9Anyone have a link to the paper?
It is titled "Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru" and is due in January.
Re: A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
#10What they actually found out: “Manny has proven that the way in which pendant cords are tied to the top cord indicates which social group an individual belonged to. This is the first time anyone has shown that and it's a big deal,”
that, and he noticed the numbers in the cords matched the numbers in a census record.
And "The colors of the strings also appeared to be related to the people’s first names."